The new book of the Invisible Committee testifies to a reflection in motion. It is not so
much the insurrection that comes but the happiness of missing it and trying again. A
poetics of the revolution that covers absolutely simplistic, a little arrogance and some
contradictions. ---- From a virtuoso and sharp pen (but reserved as usual for academics),
the authors of Now put a long time in this book their vision of a world where everything
would have imploded, dismissal becoming the final gesture, the revolutionary pichenette
that would sweep The ghostly ruins of capitalism. ---- This apocalyptic description
affects the whole of society and its institutions, including and largely those who think
to fight: organizations, militants and militants ... Even the riot, though glorified, is
questioned. The lack of nuance in the critical analysis of the really existing world
serves as a radicality to the detriment of the quality of the analysis.

Work

The end of work and of workers is announced between the disappearance of the workers'
bastions, the precariousness of the employees and the technological progress. In the
impulse, it is the collective struggles of the wage-earning system that become impossible
... The announcement of the death of the proletariat has that of practice that it avoids
asking the question of being, or not. A very slight and franco-centric analysis, leaving
aside the growth of the proletariat on the scale of the planet and neglecting the truth of
the figures: 80 % of employees in France are on permanent contracts . In a few scattered
lines the authors attack Marxism, but a few literary pirouettes are not enough to convince
us. From this point of view, we will expect a more serious work before letting us
convince ourselves that for Marxists capitalism would consist in " selling what is
produced ".
Deserting and dismissing work deprives the authors of the slightest reflection on the
reduction of working time socially necessary to the production of goods useful to needs,
opposing a Marxism that is reduced to a " how to produce ", a revolution that thinks the
" How to live ". How to produce remaining a blind point without answer. Hardly sketched,
an answer which, under post-modern words, brings back to the taste of the day what the
workers have always done:
The wig (that is, the use by the employee of time or tools to work personal work) ... The
end of the work makes it possible to refer ultimately the general strike to the ray of the
myths for the greatest satisfaction Shareholders whose capital is still not completely
fragmented. If there are some " sincere people " among them, the book massively
criticizes all those who organize themselves and any revolutionary organization. The
criticism is interesting because it just touches on many points.
But it is on the critique of Night Standing that analysis reveals its weakness. Standing
night is first praised as the exceptional experience of political reappropriation by the
individual, Before being reduced to a bureaucracy of the microphone and to the impotence
of the assembly. For us as libertarian communists, the assembly is at the basis of
self-organization, but it is also necessary that something social brings together the
assembled people: a place of work, a place of life, discrimination suffered together, A
precise struggle. A self-organization of society where the individual entering the
collective does not lose his autonomy but finds the effectiveness of the action by taking
the time necessary for the decisions shared.
And what applies to society also applies to the revolutionary organization we are
building. It is precisely because the individuals in the pile of Night standing were bound
by nothing that nothing could emerge from these endless assemblies.
After cleansing the complex question of democracy in the emancipation movement, the
Invisible Committee offers us an answer: the " vertical " spontaneity that comes from
the decision of individuals who will magically express " the intelligence of The
situation ". The destitution of democracy remains the blind spot of the talk and
practices of "autonomous" activists who substitute for the " Leninist "
authoritarianism of any collective structure the authority of their individuality without
convincing their legitimacy. By magic, " the intelligence of the situation ". The
destitution of democracy remains the blind spot of the talk and practices of the
"autonomous" activists who substitute for the " Leninist " authoritarianism of any
collective structure the authority of their individuality without convincing on their
legitimacy. By magic, " the intelligence of the situation ". The destitution of democracy
remains the blind spot of the talk and practices of "autonomous" activists who substitute
for the " Leninist " authoritarianism of any collective structure the authority of their
individuality without convincing their legitimacy.

The riot

Since a tag is more effective than all the critical literature of capital, the riot
remains at the strategic heart of the Invisible Committee, but some inflections are heard.
First, the authors point out that, according to the cities, the SO of the CGT are not
always enemies and they wish that the absence of direct confrontations with the " headed
processions" continues . Let us salute here what is said even if we note that this is not
accompanied by self-criticism on what has been done ... This inflection echoes the clearly
divergent positions expressed on the site Monday morning or on Paris-luttes.info on the
Union organizations. The issue is important because the calls to fight SOs considered as
cops is full of dangers for the social movement.
Beyond this tactical aspect, The book also evokes the loss of soul of the riot in its
outrageous militarization and in its media complacency. It is even admitted that the riot
can not win against repression. However, there is no alternative proposal. There was no
general strike, no demonstration, no riot or repeated riot... But what: " The procession
repeating itself, it was no longer a gesture in a situation, but a subject mirroring the
media, in particular alternatives. It was then time to desert this desertion in the
process of freezing and parodying. And continue to move. To move towards what ? We'll
wait for the next book.
Another debate shakes the autonomous movement and the echo here is perceptible. It is the
veiled criticism of an illusory desertion of those who build an alternative economic life.
The authors rightly point out that in capitalism no management is innocent but they are
careful not to be as arrogant as it is to other political currents: "To organize
revolutionarily under the cover of a whole maquis of structures Legal exchanges between
them is possible, but perilous. This can provide, among other things, an ideal cover for
international conspiracy relations. The threat still remains, however, to fall back into
the economic rut ... to no longer perceive the meaning of the conspiracy. Deserters are
therefore no more protected from reformism than the proletarians, and the latter are no
longer the objective supporters of capital.